the cia has been wrong on so many occasions with benchmarking a country's political stability to economic conditions based on these mumbo jumbo coefficients that they conveniently throw out there. these so called academic indicators don't apply to all countries, and there's no one size that fits all. tired cliches but true. there are various other factors that converge to produce any outcome, and many of them are unpredictable no matter how they put a seemingly pseudo scientific spin on it. no one at langley predicted or even imagined arab spring would turn out the way it did, and they were dumbfounded. the catalyst wasn't any gini, but the genie that was let loose and whipped out of control by viral messaging of self immolation to many, thanks to technology. for the arab male, getting slapped by a woman can cause a billion testosterones to erupt.
there's a cultural angle to uncontrollable mass anger and disruptive actions. shit can happen in the u.s. if an unarmed young black guy gets gunned down by a white vigilante. in fact, constant media coverage and viral messaging and blogging of such an event are causing both sides to get armed for a race war. sinkies, no matter what the gini coefficient is, don't have the intestinal determination to risk their lives and topple the regime by force. it will only happen when sinkies wake up one morning and find all kopitiams, fast food joints and food courts empty of food for a week.
